22 Films & TV Shows Set In Namibia
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The Trough
🇯🇵 Japan 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇳🇦 NamibiaYu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands...
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Transformers: The Last Knight
Illinois South Dakota District of Columbia England 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇩🇪 Germany 🇳🇦 Namibia The Middle AgesFor one world to live, the other must die. — Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
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The Hidden Sky
🇳🇦 NamibiaHermes is an Argentine anthropologist who is living with the villagers of the Damara ethnic group in Namibia. Researching about the possible origins of mankind and specialized in the cosmogony of some people, he manages to obtain some results. He travels to Argentina searching an answer in San Felix, the last afro-descendant community in the country. Hermes provides a unique bridge that will help to recover the memory of a changed history, with the conviction that mankind descended from amphibious beings. But his desire of knowledge will show him how dangerous it is. Director Pablo Cesar specializes in co-productions between Argentina and Africa.
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African Safari
🇧🇼 Botswana 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇹🇿 Tanzania 🇿🇲 Zambia 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe The 2010sA documentary that leads the audience from Namibia to Kilimanjaro to explore the African wildlife.
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Tirza
🇳🇦 NamibiaJörgen's world is crumbling. Forced into early retirement and harassed by his ex-wife, the only part of his life which makes sense - his beloved daughter Tirza - is shattered when she disappears on holiday in Namibia. After weeks of terrifying uncertainty, Jörgen goes searching for her, but the heat, his drinking and bad memories combine to unhinge him. His only ally is a child prostitute called Kaisa. Together they journey into the wilderness on Tirza's trail to discover her fate.
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Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
🇦🇴 Angola 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970s The 1960sNamibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first president of the Republic of Namibia.
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The Bone Snatcher
🇳🇦 NamibiaAfter miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.
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The King Is Alive
🇳🇦 NamibiaAs the sand shifts... madness nears. — Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
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Running Free
🇳🇦 Namibia The 1920s The 1910sHis Spirit could never be Broken — The tale of the extraordinary life and times of Lucky, a horse that was born in captivity but achieves his dream of running free with the help of a stableboy.
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Oh Schucks...! Here Comes UNTAG
🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1990sKwagga Robertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo' (Lion Killer) from the country's natives. Kwagga is upset when the UN sends a platoon of incompetent soldiers with the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (U.N.T.A.G.), to monitor the peace process, and ensure free and fair elections after the Nambabwean War for Independence. The U.N.T.A.G's American leader, Major Bradick D. Mackay and his second-in-command, Captain Zapman are offered a diamond worth a lot of money in the U.S., and they must pay 200,000 USD to Duan Robertse, Kwagga's competitive brother trying to buy a farm left to them by their dead father.
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Dust Devil
🇳🇦 NamibiaHe's not a serial killer. He's much worse. — A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
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The Sheltering Desert
🇳🇦 Namibia The 1930s The 1940sIn 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local camps. As pacifists the two German scientists refuse to be arrested and flee into the Namib Desert. They live for over two years in the vastness of the desert like ancient bushmen under indescribable circumstances, facing the challenge to survive and, at the same time, the threat to be detected. On the radio they follow the war events in Europe. Their adventure comes to an end when Hermann Korn starts suffering seriously from malnutrition.
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Any Man's Death
🇦🇴 Angola 🇳🇦 NamibiaThe search has begun ... — When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options...
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King Solomon's Mines
🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1910sAn action packed adventure, full of laughs and heroics. — Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
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Morenga
🇳🇦 Namibia The 1900sBased on a novel of the same title by Uwe Timm and set in 1904 in South Africa, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins. Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga (Ken Gampu) is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries. What follows is a sequence of battles and skirmishes that ultimately lead to Morenga seeking asylum in South Africa, where the ruling Brits are about as trustworthy as their German counterparts. Morenga was nominated for a Golden Bear award at the 1985 Berlin Film Festival.
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Boetie Goes To The Border
🇦🇴 Angola 🇳🇦 Namibia The 1980sBoetie is the type of guy who will do anything to get out of military service. Until his father makes him an offer he can't refuse. Its a story of a rich kid who learns the value of being a man.
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Game for Vultures
England 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South Africa The 1970sIn every war there are those who kill... and those who make a killing! — The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
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Flatfoot in Africa
🇮🇹 Italy 🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South AfricaInspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
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Dirkie
🇳🇦 Namibia 🇿🇦 South AfricaFew have ever entered the deadly, mysterious Kalahari, and lived to reveal its secrets! — An 8-year-old boy and his dog are left to face a vast desert wasteland alone after a plane crash, while an army of men and machines penetrate the desert searching for them. Based on true events.
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A Twist of Sand
🇳🇦 NamibiaGet rich quick! Get dead quicker! — A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly being caught by the authorities in Malta, he is eager to recoup his losses. When a former colleague appears and tells a wild story about smuggling diamonds out of South West Africa, he sees his chance to make a lot of money....
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Sands of the Kalahari
🇳🇦 NamibiaThe strangest adventure the eyes of man have ever seen! — A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
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Looking for Iilonga
🇳🇦 NamibiaOne day a man arrives at Simon's home and claims that his wife Elizabeth has borrowed a lot of money from him - and indeed she did. Simon is faced with one option only: he has to repay his family's debts. Ripped from his comfortable rural lifestyle, he travels far away to the big city, hoping to work off the debts. But from the moment he sets foot in the city, everything seems to be against Simon
